diesel mechanic

truck driver

drivers helper

laborer

roll off driver

JP Mascaro & Sons

The pay doesn't compensate for the helpers that are on the the trucks for 14 hours (or more) to only be paid $100/day. That may not seem bad but it basically is $10/hr for people who have families to feed and take care of. The management doesn't care about the employees because they know some have no other option.

They try to sweep stuff under the rug because they don't want the truth to come out and get the employees upset. They changed the payroll system during pay day which caused many people who do live paycheck to paycheck, to not get their money. They had to wait until NEXT pay date to get their money. The managers knew this but it didn't affect them because they have direct deposit. So while they knew the whole time, they waited the day of to tell the employees because they knew everyone wouldn't come into work. When the workers were upset, the managers were able to stay in their office and avoid the trouble while customer service had to deal with upset workers. They will lie to your face about many things, be careful. 

If you want to work at a job that makes you work 15+ hours for only $80-85 a day (they say $100 but that's not what you're taking home), then go ahead and sign up. They want you there at 5:30am and you don't even know when you're done for the day. It could be 1pm, 5pm, or even 7pm, and they expect you to go home and be back there at 5:30am the following day.

The division I was employed at was insanely mismanaged. Know one in any form of management knows what is going on at any point in time. People are put in positions that they can not handle.

Everyone who is in "management" within this company is expected to work 50-55 hours a week for a salary, which is absolutely insane. From my observation no one really knows what they are doing, and it has a negative impact on every aspect of the business.

My experience was very bad, I was told I was going to be a Route Supervisor, which turned into me "training" on how to drive trucks and covering routes more often than not, never getting to do the job I was actually hired for. What makes it worse is the help you get when you are a driver is laughable.

As for the salary and benefits, I was hired for 65k a year salary, but they failed to mention that the health benefits cost $160 a week, so then you are only making $900. Then if you divide $900 by your crazy hours, it comes out to about $18 an hour.

Note: The equipment is always breaking down because there is no preventative maintenance, just reactionary maintenance, and the shop foreman isn't a diesel mechanic, so nothing ever gets done properly.

Work consists of a 5 am start on the trash route and days end only when the route is complete.  I don't have too much to say in general due to me leaving in less than a year of being there because of a work related injury.  Pay is low, and usually is determined by the route given before the start of the work day. Coworkers are usually great people to engage and work with but often you find yourself having to do twice the work or more if you are paired with someone who has seniority.  Riders, those that ride the back of the truck and collect the garbage, are selected according to the drivers discretion so favoritism plays a large part in the work place and you may find yourself having came into work at 5 am only to leave by 6 am with no work hours for the day.  be prepared to work on average 12 hour days running or jogging while lifting cans which may exceed 60 lbs.  The most enjoyable part of the job is riding through different neighborhoods.

Equipment issues, trucks always breaking down. Management doesn't care about the well being and safety of their employees. The owners (all of them are extremely rude, and arrogant). Dinosaur times, they want you to read maps to do your route. Big business, family oriented, to cheap to pay more, and provide adequate equipment for safe and a more efficient work environment. They hire felons, drivers with no CDL but drives smaller trucks with airbrakes. No one follows any of the safety rules. Training is horrible, they just throw you in the seat and tell you to drive the route of the "training driver" that's with you. They don't teach anything. If you go over your hours, they give Chinese overtime (1/2 time). If you want experience in diving trucks, then just do that, don't make this company a career goal, because you'll never succeed at getting to the top. Get experience and find a real company with real (good) benefits, uniforms, better pay, and will low you to finish what you missed the next. There are much better companies in waste disposal to work for.

I left after a few weeks bc the hours we're trash.
You get a day rate of $238/day, but only if you get all 3 loads to the landfill. It's a per load job. So if you don't get all three loads in, you don't get your full day rate.
Let's say you get all 3 in, the only way is to start at 2 am and work 14 hour days bc the landfill stops taking trucks at 5 pm. They also want you to run 2 loads on Saturday but I won't get into that.  If you get 15 loads a week at 14 hours a day, that's 70 hours a week for $1190  BEFORE taxes. That comes out to 17/hour. Not bad right? Wrong, you worked 70 hours with no overtime after 40 for a measly 1200 bucks before taxes. The 70k tax bracket for married 
 Filing joint is 22% plus 6 plus 3 for state and local if you live in Scranton. That's 31% in taxes. So..1190 - 31%= $821. Now...$821÷70 hours is $11.73/hour....again with no overtime.  Unless you wanna work like a peasant with terrible equipment while the people signing your checks are signing 25 million dollar contracts, stay away from here. There bill boards say they need drivers? No, they need to pay their drivers better.

Managers are do not appreciate your time or effort or work you do. Bad working conditions, never wants to buy new parts. Alwasy rob other trucks of parts to barely fix another truck and never buy replacement part. Long hours with little pay to compensate. Little training offered. PTO sick and vacation time only pay up to your base pay so you loose more money taking pto because you always have to work so much overtime to make ends meet. Not a very clean workplace at all with outdated equipment and a very disorganized shop and parts room. Just a few things but it has been a few years since I've been employed there. I could take the long hours and horrible pay because I felt I wouldn't be good enough anywhere else but ultimately left because of management always talking down to you and never having your back for anything. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
sounds like they have a lot of company meals, and the owners are said to be generous at holidays with free hams and turkeys or whatever, but i cant verify that.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
i only interviewed here, but lots of red flags. scheduled calls cancelled without notice. in-person interview scheduled with me, but not the hiring manager! mandatory overtime. as described by the hiring manager "we dont leave after 8 hours if there is still work to do." job posting said 10hr shift, manager clarified that, in actuality, its only a 9hr shift (as if 45hrs per week instead of 50 should make it ok). they seem totally unphased about expecting employees to work without compensation, and then pulled my offer when i tried to negotiate for fair salary and a solid 40hr week. in all my professional career i have never had an employer expect me to work for free.

If I tell you everything that is wrong with this job you would be reading a book. On average you work over 50 hours a week with no overtime or no comp time. You are not told in the beginning that you are salaried. Sometimes you might even have to work on Saturdays. You are not trained properly so you will receive emails from corporate all day long about what you didn't do. You only get 5 days of vacation and 2 sick after you work one year but if you took days off before your year, your time will be deducted. It is no such thing as work life balance because management will give you a hard time about taking a day off. You are a glorified baby sitter to the drivers and helper. They will hire anyone, even people in county on work release. So you will be around a bunch of murderers, child molesters, etc everyday. It is no room for advancement because everyone that works in the corporate office is family.  STAY FAR!!!

I was a CDL driver for them.  Typical day consists of you coming in at 5 or 6AM and you are lucky if you are done your route by 6PM.  I was paid a set amount "PER DAY" (which was low to begin with) rather than Per Hour, that way they can keep you out for 12 hours, and not have to pay you overtime.  If you work here, don't ever expect to have an 8 hour shift.  Expect your shift to last at LEAST 10 hours or more and be prepared to make less than 10 dollars per hour.  Management is horrible, and will NEVER be there to help you.  They will ALWAYS be there to make sure you work as long and as hard as possible.  Be prepared to work most Saturdays too.  Was definitely the worst CDL job I have ever had.  I STRONGLY suggest you look elsewhere.  Their vehicles are old, worn out, and extremely unsafe to drive.  Management cares less, and will tell you to drive these unsafe vehicles anyway.

I am a female who worked there after getting my CDL in 2018. They DO NOT CARE if you die in them trucks, as long as they don’t lose a contract. I have complained about trucks and the mechanic will try to send you right out saying it’s ok . It’s 80% felons And ppl with background issues  and I feel like that speaks volumes. The managers  felt like they didn’t need to work and managers/workers openly spoke on women’s body’s. Did not feel safe whatsoever. The managers will keep the new safe trucks for themselves while we don’t have E-brakes on ours. yet they don’t even do any work. Hours long asf, and when you divide $148/day for drivers by 11-14 hrs you are making jack shyt. They only promote who kiss a ss. And even then you’ll be puckering for awhile. Mind you it’s a revolving door, and they don’t care

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